Almost three years ago I released css2xpath#, a port of Andrea Giammarchi’s project by the same name. Today, I’m excited to announce a new project, css2xpath Reloaded, which will supplant my previous project. css2xpath Reloaded does the same thing that css2xpath# did (convert CSS selectors to XPath selectors), but is instead based off of Ian Bicking’s excellent Python app (also somewhat confusingly named css2xpath).

Although more complicated, a benefit of using a parser is that your CSS selectors can be validated during conversion. It’s also a little bit easier to extend the code. And most importantly (for me at least) it was a lot of fun to write.

I’d consider the code to be beta quality at the moment; it’s lacking in documentation and rigorous testing. However, if you’re interested in testing it out, proceed to BitBucket.